Skill required: Procurement Operations - Sourcing and Procurement Strategy
Designation: Delivery Lead Manager
Qualifications:Any Graduation
Years of Experience:13 to 18 years
About Accenture
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What would you do Go beyond processing purchase orders at lower costs to help clients reap savings and value from the billions they spend on the goods and services that run their day-to-day business operations. Procurement Operations involve the process of acquiring goods and services that a business needs to operate. This includes identifying needs, selecting suppliers, negotiating contracts, and managing purchase orders. The goal is to obtain quality products at the best possible prices while ensuring timely delivery. Effective procurement operations help control costs, maintain supply chain efficiency, and support overall business objectives. They are essential for the smooth functioning of any organization. Develop strategies to transform the S&P function that lead to the implementation of differentiated and competitive S&P capabilities, processes, technologies and organizations.
What are we looking for
- Client Relationship Management
- Pursue and develop senior level stakeholder relationships at priority accounts; support account stakeholder relationship plans
- Understand our contractual obligations with the clients you have oversight for and scope of services provided by Accenture.
- Continuously design, innovate & improve on the execution of sourcing to lead in the new
- Develop and deploy Sourcing & Procurement offering deliverables (i.e. process templates)
- Ensure consistency of sourcing & procurement project delivery within designated team by leveraging best practices across Sourcing & Procurement Project Management organization
- Review operational results and identify opportunities for process changes
- Define and build the sourcing & procurement product offering (i.e. operating model, organizational design, best practices, sourcing and buying tools, strategic and tactical sourcing approaches, key metrics and reports)
- Team Management
- Ensure team members receive necessary training to remain relevant to clients
- Provide coaching, mentoring and guidance to team leads on stakeholder and project management, with a special emphasis on collaboration, customer focus, delivery excellence, and continuous improvement
- Strong leadership skills – proven ability to attract, build, mentor and direct a high-performing cohesive team
- Collaborative mindset and ability to partner well with colleagues and other leaders within the PBPS organization
- Experience leading cross-functional teams through a defined sourcing process
- Excellent communication, organization/time management, and problem-solving skills
- Exceptional time management skills
- Collaborative in nature to effectively manage relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
- Exceptional track record of building relationships with stakeholders that have resulted in high customer satisfaction
- Knowledge of our end-to-end processes (contracting, P2P, account management) and inclination towards process improvement
- Knowledge of how and when to escalate Roles and Responsibilities:
- In this role you are required to identify and assess complex problems for area of responsibility
- The person would create solutions in situations in which analysis requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors
- Requires adherence to strategic direction set by senior management when establishing near-term goals
- Interaction of the individual is with senior management at a client and/or within Accenture, involving matters that may require acceptance of an alternate approach
- Some latitude in decision-making in involved
- you will act independently to determine methods and procedures on new assignments
- Decisions individual at this role makes have a major day to day impact on area of responsibility
- The person manages large - medium sized teams and/or work efforts (if in an individual contributor role) at a client or within Accenture
- Please note that this role may require you to work in rotational shifts, Any Graduation
